Stabbed: Britain's Knife Crime Crisis review – a portrait of an emergency

This well-judged and heartbreaking documentary, hosted by Duwayne Brooks, reflected on the grief, fear and isolation of those affected by knife crime

At the end of last year there was a harrowing documentary called Gun No 6, which traced the havoc wreaked, the blood spilt and the grief unleashed by a single firearm. The only hope was that there are so few guns in Britain that it is possible to trace virtually all of them, even if it is by the damage they leave in their wake, and one day remove them from circulation.

Knives are a different matter. Anyone can get hold of one, carry one, use one. The first victim of knife crime in 2018 was killed at 12 minutes past midnight on 1 January. The second died three hours later. By the end of the year, 342 people had been stabbed to death, making it the worst on record. Various hands have been wrung, extra funding promised, initiatives suggested. We’ll see.

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